On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 12:39 +0200, Erik Slagter wrote: > On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 01:15 +0200, guenther wrote: > > > The issue is, that the Secure Connections options are named badly, or > > rather used to be (getting back to this). Always means SSL (port 993), > > Whenever Possible means StartTLS -- which IIRC starts with port 143 and > > uses 993 later on, or some such. > > Starttls means that both ends switch over to TLS mode, using the same > socket. Port 993 has nothing to do with it. > > > However, the real issue behind this is, that the options where named > > badly. Since 2.6.0, this is corrected and clearly states No encryption, > > TLS and SSL encryption respectively. > > Hmmm, still not clear. TLS == SSLv3. > > Something like > > No encryption, > Starttls, > Secure IMAP (SSL) > > would be more logical. > > OTOH I don't get it why it should be configurable to enable/disable > starttls. It either is supported/handshaked on both ends or not.
because there are servers out there that advertise they support STARTTLS but do not work properly so there needs to be a way for the user to override. Just like there are POP servers out there that drop the user if a command is issued that it doesn't understand, instead of simply returning -ERR and continuing like it is supposed to do according to the specs. -- Jeffrey Stedfast Evolution Hacker - Novell, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.novell.com _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
